EA has sent out a press release that World Adventures has gone gold. This means the game is ready and off to the factory to be duplicated.
Read the news here: IGN article

World Adventures previews

3 November

Dutch site Sims3Nieuws posted a report on their trip to the World Adventures preview. The article contains information about the 3 regions, there's an interview with associate producer Grant Rodiek and lots of info about Create-A-World.
Read it here: Sims3Nieuws preview

World Adventures diaryAnother update at theSims3.com is a diary from an adventurous Sim who visits all three regions.
Read it here: World Adventures diary

New videosAnd lastly, 2 new World Adventures videos have been released. Gametrailers posted the TV commercial for the expansion as well as a simlish song from Nelly Furtado.
See them here: TV commercial - Simlish song

Misc. news

14 November

New movieEA has published a new World Adventures movie on YouTube here: Adventures of Brad

World Adventures screensDutch fansite Sim3Nieuws got their copy of World Adventures a few days ago and made several screenshots already.
See them in their forum here: Sim3Nieuws

New patch comingThe UK Sims forum posted a message from a Community Representative telling that there will be a new patch soon. Besides fixes, this patch will also give some new features.
Check this message here: UK forum topic

World Adventures and modsAfter installing World Adventures, I first checked if custom content was still working. Objects, skins and clothes all still seem to be working. Mods however is a different story. For example my buyable Life Fruit stopped working as well as several others. Censorpatch still works though, but it's clear that a lot of mods will need to be updated.

Misc. news

16 November

World Adventure screenshotsFansite Sims Planet2 posted a few screenshot of the expansion on their forum here: World Adventure screenshots

Behind the scenes simlishEA released a behind-the-scene video on recording simlish for World Adventures.
See it here: Kotaku.com

Misc. news

17 November

World Adventures releasedEA posted a press release that World Adventures is now available worldwide.
Read it here: Press release

New official patchThere's a new patch available for your game. You can get it by simply starting the game launcher. Many people however seem to have problems with the patch like launching and saving the game. Also the list of fixes isn't available anymore on the Sims3.com. So it is adviced to wait with downloading it and wait for an update.

New free item in storeThe Sims3Store has updated with a new free item. The Modern HDTV can be downloaded here: New free download

Misc. news

18 November

Patch problem fixEA posted a temporary solution to the problem with the latest patch. Until a fix is made, you should choose "Save as..." instead of "Save".
Read the full details here: EA help

Primaguide previewAs with all previous Primaguides, they publish a small section on their site for free to look into. 29 infopages on World Adventures in total.
Get it here: World Adventures primaguide

IGN reviews World AdventuresIGN is the first big gamingsite to write a review on World Adventures. They give it a good 8.3 score.
Read it here: IGN review

EA released a new patch to fix the former patch. This update will give you no more save problems. If you have corrupted save files, check out the following help page: EA help

New poll

24 November

Time for a new poll. This weeks question is if you have already spent some of your free Simpoints. Click here to vote: New poll.
Last poll question was if you would like the Official Sims Magazine in your own language. 1 out of 4 people isn't interested but 1 third would love such a magazine. 12% can already buy it in their own language.
1900 people voted and here are the results:

Would you like the Official Sims Magazine in your own language?
- No, it's already in my language: 12%- No it doesn't interest me: 24%- Depends on the contents: 31%- Yes, I would love that!: 33%

Stuff pack confirmed

24 November

The UK EA site has posted info about the first Sims3 Stuff pack. It's named Design & Hightech Stuff and will be released on February 5, next year.
This pack is actually a 10th Anniversary pack and includes three items from the former Sim games: The heart-shaped vibrating bed, the electric guitar, and the aquarium.
Check the full details here: EA UK infopage

Sims3.com updatesThe official Sims 3 site posted infopages on both the upcoming new Stuff pack and the Create-a-World program. No real new information though.
Check the pages here: High-End Loft - Create-a-World

World Adventures guidesI've mentioned Carl's guides in the past and like to mention them again as they updated with several new guides. They have an overview of the new things in the pack and info on the new skills, but more guides are sure to come.
Take a look here: Carl's Sims 3 Guides

Updated censor patchSomeone pointed out to me that there is an updated censor patch. While the old patch still works, it also removes several World Adventures special effects. The new censor patches only removes the pixelationblur and nothing else.
Get the updated patch here: ModTheSims downloads